Abusers in Hollywood are as old as the Hollywood sign itself. And while fame is the ultimate prize in Tinseltown, underneath it lies a shroud of mystery binge. This season of variety confidential from variety, Hollywood's number one entertainment news source, and I heart podcasts. Six episodes are waiting for you right now to dive into the secret history of the casting couch. To explore the scandalous history of Hollywood's casting process, listen to variety confidential on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I used to have so many men.

How this beguiling woman in her fifties, she looked like a million bucks. Scams, a bunch of famous athletes out of untold fortunes.

Nearly $10 million was all gone.

It's just unbelievable.

Hide your money in your old rich man. Cause she is on the prowl.

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I'm Solea Mohsin, and I've covered economic policy for years and reported on how it impacts people across the United States. In 2016, I saw how voters were leaning towards Trump and how so many Americans felt misunderstood by Washington. So I started the big take DC. We dig into how money, politics, and power shape government and the consequences for voters. With new episodes every Thursday, you can listen to the big take DC on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or. Or wherever you get your podcasts.

My first reaction was, wow, what have I gotten myself into? Secret reporting team in defiance of the top editors who wanted to kill a story because maybe they were afraid of USC.

That's Adam Elmore, an investigative reporter for the LA Times. My editor, Matt Lait, had just asked Adam and three other colleagues of mine to, to join this secret reporting team.

I came home and told my wife what we were doing, and she was kind of terrified. I think we were new parents. Why are we wanting to participate in some sort of secret rebellion that's going to rock the boat? Is this really what you want to be doing?

Daevan Maharaj, editor in chief at the Times, just killed my piece on Carmen Puleofito, the dean of the medical school at USC. The fact that Pulia Fido was at a hotel doing meth and having sex with a young woman who overdosed and that we had 911 recordings and firsthand accounts, apparently, that wasn't enough. But Devon did say he was theoretically open to more reporting on it. Neither Matt nor I think he's serious about that, but we are. So this secret reporting team with Adam and the three others definitely runs the risk of pissing off our top editors. Adam's only been at the paper for seven months, and this is an important moment for him.

Look, I didn't get into journalism to be making a lot of money and for a stable career. If you want a stable career and you want to make a lot of money and all of that, I mean, journalism is really not for you. I knew that I had to participate in this effort to get this story published. Otherwise it would just betray my core values. Why I'm a journalist in the first place.

My name is Paul Pringle. I'm an investigative reporter for the LA Times. This is fallen angels, episode four the secret reporting team.

I wasn't really thinking about the risks. I was thinking about getting the story done and doing what it took to get it published. That's kind of how I felt about it.

Matt laid is my editor on the Puliofido story. It was Matt's idea to put together this team and keep it out of sight of Devaughn and his deputy, Mark Duvison. Shelby grad, another editor, quietly supports us. The first reporter we go to is Harriet Ryan. She's an expert at digging up documents.

I worked at Court TV. I was there for nine years. I learned about court records, how to get them from any court, you know, go any small town or federal or whatever, and just, like, find the records. And court records are just filled with, like, little diamonds of information.

Harriet gets that there's some risk to what we're doing, but she isn't phased. I know.

I'd like the element of a caper. It seemed righteous. Cause I knew the management was just so awful.

She'd worked on a big investigation into Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, and she remembers how the editors took two full years to publish it.

I'm not a bomb thrower. Revolutionary by nature. But by that point, when some of the things happened with Puleofito, like the echoes of oxy and of just being treated so poorly, just came rolling back.

Matt Hamilton had been part of the Times Pulitzer prize winning coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. He understands that this poliophile story has to be handled carefully.

It was clear to us that it was sensitive, that it was explosive. I do remember the instruction that this was to be discreet, to be confidential. The assignment, it was clear, was coming from Shelby and Matt late. I don't know what the hell they told the people above them, but it wasn't an assignment that was coming from Mark or Davon.

Matt's in his twenties. Just a few years ago, he was an intern. One reason he agrees to join our team is to work with people like Harriet Ryan.

I knew her work, I knew her byline, I had heard her on the radio. I was just intimidated by her because she's so good. I felt a high degree of pressure to deliver.

Sarah Parvini is also in her twenties. She'd worked with Matt on the San Bernardino stories. And like Matt, Sarah got her journalism degree at USC's Annenberg school.

I went to USC when I moved to LA as a graduate student in the journalism program, and it only became more obvious that USC was really a player in the city. I personally had a great experience attending Annenberg. I had excellent professors who taught me a lot. When it came time to investigate USC and investigate what the institution itself knew, it's not hard to separate, at least in my mind, your experience as a student versus your experience as a journalist. And I think part of the reason why Paul had turned to me and had thought of Matt as well was because we sort of understood a little bit about how USC worked. Having gone there for grad school like.

Matt, she jumps at the chance to work with the veteran reporters, though we do make her nervous.

It was just intimidating to be a young reporter working with, you know, the likes of Paul and Harriet, who are incredible investigative journalists and incredible writers, to sort of be thrown in with them and say, well, you know, go do this. It was intimidating in that aspect. The first meeting was just sort of a rundown of what Paul had already accomplished and what he had already found out immediately.

People were like, well, have you tried this? Have you tried this? And I just remember being around this comically large conference table. It was just like the five of us. We were just like, off and running from that point.

I remember Harry basically saying, there's. There's two routes. We go here, we go through us like we shake a bunch of trees or we find the girl.

The girl, her name is Sarah. And that's all we've got. Devon Khan, who worked at the hotel Constance, told me that she was blonde and she was young, probably in her twenties. And the last time he had seen her, she was being wheeled out of the hotel on a gurney.

Everyone on their own accord did what we call a scrub. Where you read the story, you read everything Paul's forwarding to us and just do some, like, initial digging based on your own instincts. And I remember Sarah and I taking an approach by scrubbing their social media and other digital footprints. Polio Fidos. Friend list on Facebook was public. We're kind of going through and seeing usual suspects of, like, medical professionals kind of people in the Pasadena community. But then we find these really odd characters in his Facebook friends. It's like, people with a bunch of tattoos, just palpably different people. How is that person, friends with Polio Fito, who lives in, like, a very Tony area of Pasadena, is a top official at USC. And you just see, like, people that look like they're from the other side of the train tracks, so to speak. It struck us as, like, what's the connection? It was like, this is like a girl who looks like she might be an escort. We were going through that specifically to find people named Sarah or a name that sounded like Sarah, or young women with blonde hair. Paul would forward them to Devon Khan and be like, is this her?

Is this her? Is this her? Paul starts sending me photographs, and, you know, I'm telling, no, this isn't her.

I have the Times Library again, do sweeps of public record databases. None of the names from Facebook checks out. But suddenly, for the first time, there's a woman named Sarah linked to Polito in those databases. Sarah Warren, 22 years old, listed as a, quote, associate. I searched Sarah Warren on Facebook. There are a lot of them. But there's one who's young and blonde and lives in Pasadena. I text her photo to Devon Khan.

After sending me, I think, maybe two or three photos. Eventually, he sends me a photo of Sarah, and I'm like, that's her.

It's been a year since the overdose of the hotel constance, ten and a half months since I met Devon Khan, and four months since I filed the first draft of my story. Now, finally, we found Sarah. But who is she? And how did she end up in that room doing drugs with the high flying dean of the medical school at USC?

Abusers in Hollywood are as old as the Hollywood sign itself. And while fame is the ultimate prize in Tinseltown, underneath it lies a shroud of mystery binge. This season of variety confidential from variety, Hollywood's number one entertainment news source, and I heart podcasts. Six episodes are waiting for you right now to dive into what lies beneath the glitzy image of Hollywood's golden Age and all the sex, money, and murder that's been swept under the rug for decades. Using the Variety archives, each episode offers a rare glimpse into little known casting couch stories that have long lived in the shadows. So join us as we navigate the tangled web of Hollywood's secret history with host Tracy Patton, along with expert variety reporters and correspondents as they discuss the secret history of the casting couch. To explore the scandalous history of Hollywood's casting process, listen to variety confidential on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Are you ready to fight back against crime? Hi guys. Nancy Grace here, host of podcast crime stories with Nancy Grace. I've dedicated my life to fighting crime and helping crime victims. For a decade, I prosecuted violent felonies personally investigating, prosecuting, and covering literally thousands of cases. It's so easy to think it will never happen to me or my family, but that is simply not true. Every day on crime stories with Nancy Grace, we shine a light on unsolved homicides, heat up cold cases, and help find missing people, especially children. We speak with family members, investigators, CSI reporters, and experts in every field. Every day is a mission. Every day is a chance to stop crime and keep one more person safe. Listen to crime stories with Nancy Graze on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

I'm Soleia Mohsen, and I've covered economic policy for years and reported on how it impacts people across the United States. In 2016, I saw how voters were leaning towards Trump and how so many Americans felt misunderstood by Washington. So I started the big take. DC. We dig into how money, politics and power shape government and the consequences for voters.

It's an election year, so there's a lot of focus on the voters that TikTok is reaching.

The initial reaction is like, oh, things are looking so resilient.

I don't want to be too pessimistic.

But I just don't see the political will down in Washington right now.

To change their tune.

I think the american electorate has been signaling that it expects a rematch of the 2020 election.

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Each member of the reporting team is working a different angle. Harriet Ryan is digging into USC's relationship with Carmen Puleofito. Is USC protecting this guy? And if so, why?

We've been trying to figure out why is USC so invested in this guy? Just cut him loose if he has all these problems. One of the things we were looking at was the role that he played in this lawsuit between the University of California at San Diego and USC. USC, under Max Nikias and under Carmen Pulipito at the medical school, had this focus on transformative faculty. So they were not going to, like, gradually work their way up the ladder of prestigious research institutions. They wanted to jump stairs. And a very efficient way to do that is to lure Alzheimer's and brain researchers to their universities with their hundreds of millions of dollars grant funding. Carmen Puli Fito knew this would make Max Nikias very happy if he'd get some of these guys. He brought two brain researchers from UCLA to USC. It was very secretive and overnight rating of this lab at UCLA. And UCLA was so upset that USC quietly paid a $2 million confidential settlement, which is a lot of money, but nothing compared to the research dollars that USC was getting. And then Polito trained his sites on this very prestigious, enormous lab at UCSD San Diego, which was run by Paul Azin.

And USC just took the entire lab. They arranged for everybody to just move over to working for USC without actually leaving San Diego. They would just become USC faculty, USC researchers. They pulled this off so covertly and so totally that there was an allegation that they actually even took the paper clips from the lab at UCSD. They took everything, like the personnel, the file folders. UCSD is devastated. It's hundreds of millions of dollars, like more than $300 million of federal funding. But UCSD decides to do something just that. They filed a lawsuit against USC. You have two big academic schools fighting over this poaching of academic stars, and a key witness in that case is going to be Carmen Puleofito.

It wouldn't help USC's case if it became publicly known that this key witness had been caught up in a drug overdose of a young woman in a hotel room. And $340 million in grant funding is a big incentive to keep things quiet.

So at the time that the school forces him out and has to reckon with all of his problems. The highest levels in the university knows that he's a key witness in this big case that UC has brought against USC. And the University of California is seeking, like, $180 million in damages. They want serious compensation. And key to adjudicating this is going to be the testimony of Carmen Puleofito. So when you think about when USC is, like, weighing, like, what are we going to do about Puleofito? One thing he has to weigh is, like, we're going to need this guy to testify for us.

Meanwhile, Adam, Matt, and Sarah are looking for connections between Pulia Fito and Sarah Warren. She's still the only one who can really tell us what happened in that hotel room.

We started scrubbing Sarah Warren and her family. There was some case involving Sarah in Texas that we found records for. And then I looked through the database and saw Sarah Warren had been arrested several times in La county. That revealed a number of other cases that we had to pull records for. Sarah Warren had several arrests in La county. She was in and out of rehabs.

She had been signed up on, like, a sugar baby kind of website, and that it was associated with an email address that we had found in court documents. So what we knew of Sarah was what we had seen in the court filings in terms of rehab, and then also the association with this sugar baby website.

The website is called humaniplex, and it's for prostitution. So Sarah Warren is, or has been a sex worker.

What was most interesting to me was her attorneys in these cases were a very reputable private counsel. She wasn't using public defenders. Someone's paying for her lawyers, and someone's paying for these very tony rehabs. Like, this is not like state insurance funded rehab centers. This is like high end rehab centers.

Then we find something else. In one court filing, we discover that Sarah had been arrested with someone named Kyle Voight.

I was entering names from the Venmo list and the Facebook page into our internal database, being like, maybe there's a hit here. And I eventually struck gold with Kyle Voight. There were several arrests, and they were all drug related. Possession, identity theft. You know, it wasn't one arrest for, like, a doi. This was someone who got a criminal record, an extensive one, and he was friends with Polito in some way or associated with him. He didn't have a lot of Venmo friends, but one of them was Kyle vohr.

Kyle Voight, who had been arrested 15 times in the past seven years pleading guilty or no contest to possession for sale of meth, heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl, and ecstasy. So Matt digs into Kyle's court records.

I knew the clerk at the valley courthouse, and she let me come back. And I remember sitting there and kind of going through the pages, figuring out what's important. And I remember seeing a court form that he filled out, and he put an address in Pasadena on Los Robles. And I'm thinking, that address looks really familiar, and it's polio Fido's address. Why would he list this $5 million mansion in Pasadena? Kyle Voight, a small time drug dealer, lists this address. How is Kyle Voigt, who appears to be arrested on a semi frequent basis in the orbit of USC's medical school?

Dean, all the reporters on this team have covered crime stories. This kind of low level drug dealing is pretty routine, and it's not much of a story. What makes this different is puleofito, an important guy bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars to USC doing meth and delicate eye surgeries. Turns out Kyle Voight is sitting in men's central jail. So Sarah Parvinian, Adam Omaric, decide to pay him a visit.

I had never gone to a jail or a prison before to speak with someone who was incarcerated there. That was definitely intimidating. Adam and I went down together.

It's kind of like, what else does he have to do? He's sitting there in jail.

I was very glad to have Adam there with me because Adam had way more experience as an investigative reporter than I did. We basically had to, you know, request the time, and then Kyle would have to be okay with speaking to us. I remember just being shocked that Kyle would even speak with us.

He's behind the plexiglass. It's a visitor's kind of room where it's just rows of plexiglass, and you have to pick up the phone. And he picks up the phone, and so you start talking to him through the phone behind the glass.

We had to disclose who we were. We had to disclose that it was for a story that we were working on. We were investigating USC. We were investigating foolio. But he almost seemed shocked that almost like, hey, how did you find this out? How did you link us together?

How do you know Sarah? How do you know Carmen? He was a reluctant kind of source, so he would kind of just kind of sit there and listen and then maybe say something. We were able to confirm that this is not a one off kind of relationship. This is Pluto Fito regularly associating with. With this circle of drug users, and in his case, a dealer. He called him Tony. He said that Tony's always there.

Kyle tells Sarah and Adam that Sarah Warren is his girlfriend. They hang out in Pasadena and Huntington beach with a bunch of other drug users, and Pulia Fito is part of their scene. The reporters ask Kyle about some of the other names they've come across on Pulia Fito's social media, people who seem out of place in a world of money and prestige, and Kyle knows a lot of them.

We would drop a name of one of, you know, Polito's associates, and he would go, oh, yeah, you know, I remember so and so, or, oh, yeah, wow, you know that person.

But what's strange is that even though this Tony is someone they hang out with all the time, and he's listed on Kyle's council form, Kyle seems to hate him. He says that Carmen Pugliofito is a, quote, monster.

He would make sort of ominous kind of remarks. He would say Carmen's evil, that the guy is. He's a really bad guy.

He noted that the relationship between Sarah Warren and Carmen Poliofito was a toxic one.

Kyle won't confirm that he sells drugs to Pilofito, but he says he has plenty of dirt on the former dean.

Kyle did in that moment, tell us that there were photos or videos or both that would link Julio Fido to basically what we were investigating, to his relationship with Sarah Warren, his relationship with others, including Kyle. In this sort of circle of partying.

And doing drugs, what Kyle Voight gave us was enough of an indication to know that the medical school dean at USC was leading a secret double life with this circle of people, which all of a sudden makes the story much more interesting than one night in a hotel room.

And it'll make it that much harder for Daevon and Mark to kill. The next draft of this story, you.

Can write a story that explains why having a powerful person who's also an eye surgeon, in a position overseeing young students and doing all these drugs and associating with criminals is not an ideal situation.

Abusers in Hollywood are as old as the Hollywood sign itself. And while fame is the ultimate prize in Tinseltown, underneath it lies a shroud of mystery binge. This season of variety confidential from variety, Hollywood's number one entertainment news source, and I heart podcasts. Six episodes are waiting for you right now to dive into what lies beneath the gloomy, glitzy image of Hollywood's golden age and all the sex, money and murder that's been swept under the rug for decades. Using the Variety archives, each episode offers a rare glimpse into little known casting couch stories that have long lived in the shadows. So join us as we navigate the tangled web of Hollywood's secret history with host Tracy Patton along with expert variety reporters and correspondents as they discuss the secret history of the casting couch. To explore the scandalous history of Hollywood's casting process, listen to variety confidential on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

You can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been. On every episode of NPR's through line, we take a story from the news and go back in time to where it started. Where it really started. To answer one important question, how did we get here? Find NPR's through line on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Are you ready to fight back against crime? Hi guys, Nancy Grace here, host of podcast crime stories with Nancy Grace. I've dedicated my life to fighting crime and helping crime victims. For a decade I prosecuted violent felonies personally investigating, prosecuting, and covering literally thousands of cases. Its so easy to think it will never happen to me or my family, but that is simply not true. Every day on crime stories with Nancy Grace, we shine a light on unsolved homicides, heat up cold cases, and help find missing people, especially children. We speak with family members, investigators, CSI reporters, and experts in every field. Every day is a mission. Every day is a chance to stop crime and keep one more person safe. Listen to crime stories with Nancy Graze on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

My name is Johnny B. Goode, and I'm the host of the new podcast creating a con, the story of Vidcon. Over this nine part series, I'll explore the life and crimes of my best friend, Ray Trapani.

I always wanted to be a criminal. If someone's like, oh, what's your best way of making money? I'm like, oh, we should start some sort of scheme.

You see, Ray has this unique ability to find loopholes and exploit them.

They collected $30 million. There were headlines about it.

His company, Centratech, was one of the hottest crypto startups in 2017. It was gonna change the world. Until it didn't.

I came into my office, opened my email, and the subject heading was FBI request.

It was only a matter of time before the truth came out.

You can only fake it till you make it for so long before they find out that your Harvard degree is not so crimson. How could you sit there and do something that you know will objectively cause more harm in the world? World?

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I think there was an initial idea that we would be able to turn this around pretty quickly.

Reporter Harriet Ryan and so on any.

Given day, Sarah and Adam would be like, out doing one thing and then Paul would be doing something else and Matt would be doing something that would, like, be writing. And just seemed like the days were really full of activity.

But we still need to keep our reporting under wraps.

We made sure that we couldn't be seen. We met a lot of the time in a little office that was like just kind of a spare room. It was kind of out of the way. Would meet in the cafeteria. We took steps to make sure that it wasn't obvious that we were all working together on something major.

Then Matt Lait, who championed the creation of the team, tells us he's leaving the LA Times for a job at CNN.

That news was just kind of like a, well, who's going to edit us now? Who is going to sort of be the steward of this investigation at the editor level and ensure that it's what we want it to be and who's.

Going to have our back when David and Mark find out what we've been working on?

I was devastated. I'm still devastated. There's part of me that still thinks of Matt laid as my editor, even though we haven't worked together in a long time. He's a great person, a kind person, a great reporter on that Oxy story. When I was left alone, I was the last reporter working on it. Matt would come on. Door knocks with me and just stand next to me just so I wouldn't have to go by myself. Like, he's just like a great person. And I just. I couldn't believe it.

Matt leaving makes us feel like the clock is running out on this team. We've got to nail this story down, make it bulletproof, because he won't be there to fight for it.

Discovering the rehab came from the court fall, I remember going through files and seeing names of different rehab facilities through court records.

Sarah Parvini has been tracking Sarah Warren's various stints in rehab over the past 13 months. There was palm strings in Malibu and San Juan Capistrano. The most recent is in Newport beach. The place is called ocean recovery. Like the lawyers, it's not cheap, and that makes us think there's got to be someone bankrolling it. Sarah Warren checked into ocean recovery three months ago. Most rehabs run a 30 day program, but Sarah Parvini sees that ocean recovery also offers a 90 day package, so she might still be there. We decide to make the hour long drive down to Newport beach and see for ourselves.

It was a very dramatic, overcast kind of day. Paul and I had driven down from LA to this place looked like an apartment complex, but it was some sort of recovery kind of place.

Ocean recovery is in a fourplex right by the marina.

We parked in front of the building. We walked up to it. At the threshold. There was someone who basically was like, what are you guys doing here? Of course we can. We can't pretend that we aren't journalists looking for information, so we disclose that. And of course, you know, that person said, well, I can't discuss anyone with you for medical, you know, privacy reasons. There were some people who were outside of the building who looked like they were staying there. And Paul asked if Sarah Warren was there or had been there. One of them said something like, well, she's not here right now. We had had the confirmation that Sarah, even if she wasn't there in that moment, had been staying there. To get that confirmation for us was huge, because it meant the thread that we were pulling at was unraveling the way that we wanted it to.

This is as close as we've been able to get to Sarah Warren, and we've tried everything, sending her messages on social media, phone calls, door knocking, addresses she's associated with. We have one more way in her family. Public records show that the Warrens live in Huntington Beach, a town that calls itself Surf city, USA. It's about an hour southeast of downtown LA. Sarah's father, Paul, is an executive for logistics company. Her mother, Marianne, has a master's degree from Pepperdine. She's got a teenage brother, Charles Matt Hamilton, and I take the drive down the coast.

So we show up to the Huntington beach neighborhood of the Warren family, and it's, I would say, a quintessential Orange county neighborhood. It's a gated community, but it's in a pretty isolated area. It's close to the water, kind of stucco y townhouses, italianate.

Given the neighborhood, the warren seemed like a typical upper middle class southern California family.

We drove to the different entry points to this gated community, just trying to figure out, like, how are we gonna do this?

We make our way to the Warren's house and knock on the front door. No answer. Then a young man appears at the door of the garage. It's Sarah's brother, Charles.

Paul gives these spiels like we're reporters from the Los Angeles Times. We're trying to talk to Sarah. It's a story about doctor Carmen Poliofito, the dean of USC's medical school. Charles Warren rolled up the sleeves of his t shirt, said almost nothing, but pointed to a tattoo that said, no snitches. Just remember Pete shocked, because this is well to do community gated near the coast of Huntington beach. Very lily white Orange county community. And here's this teenager acting tough and macho with a tattoo, like, ready to go, saying, no snitches. I didn't know if he was joking or not and if it was just kind of. Kind of imitating bug culture or if he was serious and he was totally serious.

We have a feeling why USC might want to protect Carmen poliofito. The prestige, the money, the risk of scandal. But what about this 17 year old kid from Orange county? What does the good doctor have on him? Devon Maharaj and Mark Duvason deny that they did anything wrong in their handling of the USC investigation, and they maintained that any negative portrayal of their actions is false. Next time on fallen angels.

Pulevito had given him meth. 25 to 50 bars of Xanax.

The deeper we look, the darker it gets.

Here's a young woman who is struggling not only with substance issues, but also this imbalance of power.

She was discharged, but relapsed on the ride home with Polito because he gave her meth and alcohol.

But the people who should be most concerned seem to have different priorities.

We told them were two reporters from the LA Times. We'd like to speak with President Kias. But of course, we were turned away.

The money was arriving so fast, he didn't have time for two to LA Times reporters.

That's next time on Fallen Angels. Fallen. The story of California corruption is a production of I Heart podcasts in partnership with Best Case Studios. I'm Paul Pringle. This show is based on my book, Bad Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Fallen Angels was written by Isabel Evans, Adam Pincus, and Brent Katz. Isabel Evans is our producer. Brent Katz is co producer. Associate producers are Hanna Lebowitz, Lockard and on Paho Locke. Executive producers are me, Paul Pringle, Joe Picarello, and Adam Pincus. For best case studios. Original music is by James Newberry. This episode was edited by Max Michael Miller. Additional editing, sound design, and additional music by Dean White. Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton, Sarah Parvini, and Adam Elmarick are consulting producers. Our iHeart team is Ali Perry and Carl Cadell. Follow and rate fallen angels wherever you get your podcasts.

I used to have so many men.

How this beguiling woman in her fifties. She looked like a million bucks. Scams a bunch of famous athletes out of untold fortunes.

Nearly $10 million was all gone.

It's just unbelievable.

Hide your money in your old rich man cause she is on the prowl.

Listen to Queen of the Con season five, the athlete whisperer, on the iHeartRadio.

App, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Abusers in Hollywood are as old as the Hollywood sign itself. And while fame is the ultimate prize in Tinseltown, underneath it lies a shroud of mystery binge. This season of variety confidential from variety, Hollywood's number one entertainment news source, and and iHeart podcasts. Six episodes are waiting for you right now to dive into the secret history of the casting couch. To explore the scandalous history of Hollywood's casting process, listen to variety confidential on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

You can't fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been. On every episode of NPR's Throughline, we take a story from the news and go back in time to where it started, where it really started. To answer one important question, how did we get here? Find NPR's through line on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Solea Mohsen, and I've covered economic policy for years and reported on how it impacts people across the United States. In 2016, I saw how voters were leaning towards Trump and how so many Americans felt misunderstood by Washington. So I started the big take DC. We dig into how money, politics, and power shape government and the consequences for voters. With new episodes every Thursday. You can listen to the big take DC on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.